Making Waves in the World of Jewish Education
July 4, 2012
by Frayda Laufer-Leibtag
Education is arguably one of the fields in most desperate need of innovation. The Threshold Fellowship, an important new incubator for Jewish Educational Entrepreneurship, was introduced by HaOhel Institutions, … [Read More...]

The Threshold Fellowship program lasts for six months. Each cohort will include a group of between twelve and fifteen Fellows and will require a minimum time commitment of approximately five hours per week. The following is a brief overview of the program’s components, with a link to a more … [Read More...]

Threshold Incubator Gives Educators the Business
By: Stephen Leavitt
Published: July 2nd, 2012
Welcome to the Threshold (www.Threshold.org.il), a Jewish educational entrepreneurship incubator in Israel, an incubator to help educators not only thrive financially in Israel, but do what they do … [Read More...]

by Chaim Davids, 2012 Threshold Fellow
We know that where necessity is the mother of invention, boredom can easily drive us towards innovation as well. I’m speaking, of course, about food. Each and every one of us knows what it’s like to compulsively open and close the kitchen cabinets, … [Read more...]

by Uri Schneider, 2012 Threshold Fellow
Jewish education can do better. There is widespread agreement that K-12 day schools in the Diaspora are failing. Institutions are struggling with sustainability, and parents are grappling with prohibitive tuition. And the most inconvenient truth, widely … [Read more...]

Last night Threshold fellows, Steering Committee members, coaches and mentors came together for a rehearsal for next week's Launch Night. The fellows practiced their pitches and got feedback from the audience, learned how to effectively network from PresenTense co-founder Aharon Horwitz, and set up … [Read more...]

by Baruch Shapiro, 2012 Threshold Fellow
Being a Threshold Fellow this year has been a real eye opener. Being that I was already in the midst of the pilot program of the Israel Herb School (www.IsraelHerbSchool.com), it has been a great aid to my thinking to be attending sessions on subjects … [Read more...]

By Yaakov Lehman, 2012 Threshold Fellow
A wise person once relayed to me the following allegory: life is a ballroom, and we as the dancers, move in graceful harmony with the tune emanating from The Conductor on high. Inevitably, the time comes when the dancers must re-adjust their steps when a … [Read more...]

Welcome to Threshold, an important new incubator for Jewish educational entrepreneurship. In creating the six-month Threshold Fellowship program we are intent on creating a cohort of educators who will become “social entrepreneurs,” enabling these exceptional men and women to begin their own organizations, create their own jobs, and have a meaningful occupation that will enable them to continue their lifelong dream of living in Israel.
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